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Precise Punctuation
Jubilant Geometry
Helpful Homonyms
100
Used to separate items in a list and to set off dialogue.
What is a comma?
100
A quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides.
What is a trapezoid?
100
A type of forest animal with antlers, and a nickname for a loved one.
What is the homonym pair dear/deer?
200
Used in contractions and to form plurals.
What is an apostrophe?
200
Angles greater than 90 degrees.
What are obtuse angles?
200
A warm primary color, and the past tense for what you do when you open a book.
What is the homonym pair red/read?
300
Used to set off dialogue and to enclose key words.
What are quotation marks?
300
A three-dimensional figure with three rectangular sides and six vertices.
What is a triangular prism?
400
Used to introduce a list or draw attention to the information that follows.
What is a colon?
400
A three-sided polygon with no equal sides.
What is a scalene triangle?
500
Used to represent a pause in dialogue, and to show left out words or sentences.
What is an ellipsis?
500
A line segment from the center of a circle or sphere to the outside of the figure.
What is a radius?